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• Senator Sanders: "Ben Bernanke Is Part Of The Problem"

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Ben Bernankes low-road approach of taking the Feds "noble mission" of bailing out Wall Street at any and all costs directly to the people seems to have come at curiously opportune time, a mere week ahead of his December 3 Senate Banking Committee hearing for his second 4 year term nomination. It also seems to have ...
  13 hours ago

• CarEnthusiast - Week At The Wheel: 1991 Mercedes 190E

  
  German Car Zone — Authority: 151
  | Week at the Wheel | 1991 Mercedes-Benz 190E | Inside & Out: This Merc maybe a lot older than the usual new cars we feature, but we like a bit of retro here. Most of us grew up seeing the 190E and its relatives as the archetypal Benz, the three-box shape with the star on its grille something so much ...
  21 hours ago

• Fed Balance Sheet At New Record After $11 Billion Weeekly Increase In MBS/Agency Debt

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  The Federal Reserves balance sheet hit a new all time record of $2.2 Trillion in assets , after an $11 billion spike in MBS and Agency purchases week over week.  Securitiesheld outright: $1,785 billion (an increase of $92 billion MoM,resulting from $2 billion in newTreasury purchases, which have tapered off at ...
  2 days ago

• Did the Fed’s Mortgage Support Program Work?

  
  HSH Associates Financial News Blog — Authority: 134
  It was one year ago today that the Federal Reserve announced their plan to “reduce the cost and increase the availability of credit for the purchase of houses” On November 25, 2008 the Fed decided to support Main Street and the mortgage market by committing their first round of purchases to Fannie and Freddie ...
  5 days ago

• PIMCOs Total Return Fund Sells Over $80 Billion Of Mortgage Securities To US Taxpayers Year-To-Date

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Bill Gross PIMCO is selling mortgage securities like there is no tomorrow. In October, the Newport Beach firms Total Return Fund held the lowest amount of mortgages in recent (or distant) history: at 16% of the total $193 billion in fund total net assets, securities backed by the housing bubble (v1 and/or v2) ...
  6 days ago

• Here Is Why The Dollar Is Now Effectively Worthless

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  A picture is worth a thousand Krugman essays, which is why we present a chart comparing the US Monetary Base (and by subtracting Reserve Balances with Fed Reserve Banks, Currency in Circulation), and the Feds holdings of MBS and Agency paper (worthless GSE/FHA garbage). In summary: Currency in Circulation: $920 ...
  1 week ago

• Feds Bullard: Keep MBS program active longer

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 961
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A senior Federal Reserve official said on Sunday the central bank should keep alive its mortgage-related assets purchase program beyond a planned end-date to give policy-makers more flexibility as they help the economy recover from a painful recession.
  1 week ago

• September International Capital Flow Detail

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  In September, foreigners purchased $55.7 billion of domestic securities , offset by $15 billion of foreign purchases by US residents, for a net capital inflow of $40.7 billion. The bulk of foreign purchases was conducted by private investors ($44.8 billion) and the balance of $10.9 billion was by foreign official ...
  1 week ago

• Guest Post: Fed-Covert Money Printing Alert

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Submitted by reader Don General This note contains an update on where Fed printing stands, how much is left, what the pace of purchases is, and when the program will stop. It also updates the Feds balance sheet, and its inflationary impact. This update houses some very important developments, due to actions at ...
  1 week ago

• Fed Balance Sheet Hits Record $2.2 Trillion In Assets On $71 Billion Weekly Increase In MBS

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  The Federal Reserves balance sheet hit a new all time record of $2.19 Trillion in assets , after an unprecedented spike of over $70 billion in MBS purchases pushed the number over the previous record from late April. Securities held outright: $1,774 billion (an increase of $96 billion MoM, resulting from $3 ...
  1 week ago

• Meredith Whitney Most Pessimistic About Plummeting Credit Card Lines; Feds Meddling In MBS And Agency Purchases

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  The full Meredith Whitney Bloomberg radio interview can be found here . Some of the gloomier observations by Meredith: Credit card lines have been cut by a whopping $1.5 trillion since the market peak, and M.W. expects this to go to $2.7 trillion: another $1.2 trillion in purchasing power will be removed from US ...
  1 week ago

• [scans] Mercedes-Benz Classic: Mercedes 300 SEL 6.3 and Mercedes 600

  
  German Car Zone — Authority: 151
  Both are fantastic cars, but just look at the 300 SEL!!! Absolutely gorgeous and timeless machine… :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:
  1 week ago

• Faber On Gold, And The 800 S&P Barrier

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Marc Faber on Helicopter Ben flooding the market with pieces of paper if the S&P were to hit 800 again. The problem with this assumption is what happens to treasury rates. Already all the excess liquidity is bypassing stocks (and definitely bonds which at 3-4% have little room to grow) and going straight into ...
  1 week ago

• New York Fed Bringing Mortgage Bond Purchasing In-House, Halves External Managers

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  In taking a page straight out of Goldmans book of horrendous PR, the Federal Reserve, even as its fate is about to start being deliberated tomorrow, has chosen to throw sand in the eyes of all those who claim its days of secrecy must end, and has decided to beging purchasing the QE allocated portion of MBS/Agency ...
  1 week ago

• In Defense of Ms. Whitney

  
  InvestorPlaceBlogs.com — Authority: 113
  Meredith Whitney came on strong yesterday in an interview with Maria Bartiromo, saying the market was overvalued and she had no idea why it was rising. I quote (roughly) "I am the most bearish I have been in a year." Ms. Whitney, in the past, has been a banking analyst with keen insight into housing, the cause of bank ...
  1 week ago

• "For God Sakes, strap on a pair and get to it"

  
  Moral Philosophy and Current Events — Authority: 126
  By Mike Whitney November 08, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- This is bad. Double-digit unemployment. In October, unemployment soared to 10.2%. 16 million people are out of work. The average work week is down to 33 hours. Payrolls have contracted 22 months straight. The "real" jobless rate (underemployment) is ...
  1 week ago

• Super Talent 600X CompactFlash Memory Card

  
  iTech News Net — Authority: 649
  Super Talent announced its new 450X, 533X and 600X CompactFlash (CF) memory cards , which are available in 8GB, 16GB, 32GB and 64GB capacities. These Type I CF cards are based on MLC flash flash memory and are compliant with the CompactFlash 4.1 standard. The 600X card offers a transfer speed up to 90MB/s that ...
  2 weeks ago

• MBS Trader

  
  Trading Jobs — Authority: 134
  Apply for Job Here Employment Type: Regular Full/Part Time: Full-time Division: Division Mortgage Job Description: GENERAL FUNCTION: This position is responsible for pricing, sale, and hedging of agency loans in accordance with Corporate objectives. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: * Responsible for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Federal Reserve Balance Sheet Update: Week Of November 11

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  Total Federal Reserve balance sheet assets for the week of November 11 of $2,146 billion ($1billion lower compared to the prior weeks $2,147 billion). Fed assets consisted of: Securities held outright: $1,699 billion (an increase of $91 billion MoM, resulting from $6 billion in newTreasury purchases, $72 billion ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quantitative Easing Has Been A Monetary Failure; Persistent Deflation Means More Fed Intervention Coming Soon

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 756
  As more and more pundits discuss the spectre of inflation, with gold flying to all time highs which many explain as an inflation hedge, not to mention stock price performance which is extrapolating virtual hyperinflation, the market "truth" as determined by Fed Fund futures and options is, and continues to be, ...
  2 weeks ago

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